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T. BUENO, Jr. WAGON FOR TRANSPORTING SUGAR CANE, No. 295,107. Patented Mar. 11, 1884.

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T. BUENO, Jr.

WAGON FOB. TRANSPORTING SUGAR CANE. No. 295.107. Patented Mar. 11, 1884.

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WAGON FOR TRANSPORTING SUGAR-CANE.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters.

' Application filed July 9, 1883.

To (r-ZZ whom it nary concern Beit known that I, TAOITO BUENO, Jr., a citizen of Santiago de Cuba, Island of Cuba, and a resident of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Devices and lllethods for Transporting and Delivering Sugar-Cane, of which the following is a specification.

The object of this invention is to economize time and labor in the transportation and delivery of sugar-cane from the field to the mill. The common system or method of getting the cane from the field to the mill is to load the cane in the field into carts which are drawn by oxen or other animals to the mill, where the cane is unloaded or discharged by hand. This operation is slow, and as the season for such work is short the special necessity for quick work and the demand for extra laborers and vehicles make the cost of transporting and unloading cane an important item of expense.

My invention relates to an improved apparatus whereby the movement of the cane from the field to the mill is greatly facilitated; and itconsists in the peculiar construction and arrangement of parts hereinafter described, and

more particularly pointed out in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of the specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 represents a side elevation of my improved removable cart or wagon frame in place on a cart-body. Fig. 2 is a plan of the same with its sides removed. Fig. 3 is a reduced elevation, showing the removable frame suspended from a derrick. Fig. 4: represents an end elevation of the removable frame in place on a ear-truck body. Fi 5 is an enlarged elevation of a coupling-clamp in position. Fig, 6 is an enlarged elevation of the same on line a as, Fig. 5.

In the drawings, A represents the body of a cart or wagon adapted to receive the removable carti'raine B, the said cart-body A being composed, essentially, of longitudinal timbers A A, held together by cross-timbers A A and suitably secured on axles and wheels.

The bottom 13* of my improved removable frame B is of oblong shape, and is constructed substantially of two or more longitudinal timbers, 13, held together at their ends by cross- Patent No. 295,107, dated March 11, 1884.

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| timbers B the projecting ends of the timbers B being slightly cut away on their inferior faces, as shown at b, to correspondwith like cuttingsor reductions a on the superior faces of'the ends of the timbers A, so that open spaces 0 are formed-between the ends of the timbers A Bwhen the frame B is in placefor the easy engagement of hooks, rings, or chains about the ends of the timbers B.

The vertical sides 0 O of the removable frame B are preferably composed of timbers O G, to which are secured, by fixed clamps (Z or other suitable fastenings, stakes D, whose upper ends are mortised into rails E, as shown. These sides 0 G are hinged, as shown atf, on the outside of the timbers B in such a manner that they can be thrown down at a suitable angle, as indicated in dotted lines, Fig. l, to form guides or chutes for supporting and directing the cane when it is discharged from the 'frame B to the mill or other place of deposit. Said frame-sides C G are held in annpright position during the loading and transportation of the cane by means of braces composed, preferably, of links nd bars g h, respectively, that are secured by staples ior other suitable devices to the central longitudinal timber of the frame-bottom. The free ends of the bars h, slotted as shown at k, are entered through mortises Z, formed in certain of the stakes D, and then keys m are driven into the slots 7;, outside of the stakes D, as shown.

Secured upon the side timbers, B, of the removable'frame 13, near the ends thereof, are coupling-clamps G, whose free ends a project downward on the inside of said timbers and below their inferior faces, so that when said frame 13 is on the cart-body A or car-truck frame H it is held in place. against lateral movement by the engagement of the ends of said clamps G against the inside of the side timbers of either the cart-body A or car-truck frame H, as the case may be.

My method or system of transferring and transporting sugarcane from the field to the mill also involves the laying of a track or railroad, I, to run the truclcframe HI upon, said road I terminating at one end at the mill or other place of deposit, and at the other end at a location in the field convenient for the ap proach of the oX-carts. At this latter point I station a derrick, from whose arm K depend chains L, having rings or'hooks L on their lower extremities. When a cart loaded with sugar-cane is driven up to the derrick, the chains L are lowered and the rings L engaged over the ends of the timbers 13. Then, by application of suitable power to the derrick, the frame B, with its load of cane, is lifted off the cart-body A and swung and deposited on the car-truck frame H, which latter is then propelled with its load along the road I to its destined point. Then a side of the frame B being lowered, as indicated in dotted lines, Fig. 4, by the withdrawal of keys m, most or all of the cane discharges itself autoniatically by its own gravity, while the rest may be quickly discharged by hand. Preferably the cane is discharged into or upon an endless belt or cane-carrier, by which it is delivered directly to the rolls or cane-crushing machinery. The rails on the delivery side of the road I, at the point of the delivery of the cane, are preferably set on a lower level than the opposite ones, so that the consequent canting or'inclining of the truck-frame and its load toward the point of delivery will f; cilitate the discharge of the cane. WVhen a ,removable frame is unloaded of its cane, the

side of it that has been thrown down is restored to and secured in its normal position, and the truck is then run back to the derrick, by which the removable frame is then lifted from the truck-frame and placed on a cartframe, to be taken again to the field for another load, and then in order a loaded removable frame is taken by means of the derrick from r a contiguous cart-body and deposited on the car-truck frame to be run to the mill, and in this manner the work is continued.

Tam aware that it is not new to provide carts or wagons with removable racks having their sideshinged so as to be incapable of being used as chutes, and that Wagons having as herein shown and described, with a rectangularbottom having vertical sides hinged thereto, adapted to be held in an upright position by suitable braces, and adapted by lowering to serve as discharge chutes or guides, said frame being provided with suitable clamps for coupling it to a cart or car truck body, as set forth.

2. The'combination, with the frame-bottom B and vertical sides 0 G, of fastenings d, hinges f, braces g h, and coupling-clamps G, all constructed and arranged substantially as herein shown and described. I

3. The combination, with the removable cart or wagon frame 13, constructed substantially as herein shown and described, and provided with the coupling-clamps G, of the cart or wagon body A, as set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention I have signed my name, in presence oftwo witnesses,this 23d day ofJune, 1883.

TAOITO BUENO, JR.

Witnesses:

B. Z. BUENO, JACOB J. STORER. 

